Newscast for January 10th, 2007

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Join us for the Java Posse Roundup 2007 in Crested Butte, CO from March 6th-9th 2007
http://mindview.net/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup

Also we have a special event coming up - our 100th episode which will be recorded live in front of an audience at the Googleplex in Mountain View. This event is open to the public and we are finalizing the details now. Please let us know through the Java Posse Google group if you are planning on attending so that we can get a head count. This is of course a free event. Keep an eye on http://javaposse.com or the Google group for more details

Map to the googleplex

• Exciting news from apple - iPhone, Apple TV, etc.
• http://www.apple.com

• Groovy 1.0 has been released
• http://groovy.codehaus.org/News
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=43709

• Might property support make it into Java after all?
• http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t88090.html
• http://blogs.sun.com/dannycoward/resource/
  Java7Overview_Prague_JUG.pdf
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/
  2007/01/people_get_read_1.html
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/rbair/archive/
  2007/01/properties_in_j.html
• http://blogs.sun.com/roller/resources/
  joe/java-properties-events.pdf

• Five things you need to know about Scala, whether you are a Java developer or a Ruby developer
• http://blog.lostlake.org/index.php?/archives/26-5-
  Things-a-Java-developer-needs-to-know-about-Scala.html
• http://blog.lostlake.org/index.php?/archives/27-5-
  Things-a-Ruby-developer-needs-to-know-about-Scala.html
• http://scala.epfl.ch

• Java Website of the week - farecompare
• http://www.farecompare.com
• http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t88056.html

• Applet of the week - J-Track 3d from NASA
• http://science.nasa.gov/Realtime/jtrack/3d/JTrack3D.html

• Java App of the week - BitTyrant (and Azureus 3.0)
• http://bittyrant.cs.washington.edu/
• http://azureus.sourceforge.net/
• http://torrentfreak.com/
  azureus-partners-with-the-bbc-to-sell-tv-shows/

Quick News Items

• Jini has a new home, and a new name - Apache River
  
• http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?
  forum=276&thread=190354
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
  thread_id=43764

• A small site - cokeandcode.com, has a good tutorial on writing a simple Java ME game using the 2D API
• http://www.cokeandcode.com/info/tut2d.html

• Is 2007 the year for JSF?
• http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2007/01/
  jsf_in_2007.html?CMP=OTC-FP2116136014&
  ATT=JSF+in+2007

• The University of Illinois has made their Java textbook available for free in PDF form
• http://www.codejacked.com/
  download-university-of-illinois-java-textbook/

• Chris Adamson of java.net has been busy recently. He has a two part blog up about rebooting Java media
• http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/
  12/rebooting_java_media_act_ii_de.html

• Looking for some help building web apps? Java Web Parts might be up your alley
• http://javawebparts.sourceforge.net/

• The Apache Geronimo project has released milestone one of Geronimo 2.0, with early support for Java EE 5
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
  thread_id=43691

• Staying with apache for one more item, Apache Commons VFS (virtual file system) has reached version 1.0
• http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/vfs/

• Java Restlets have reached 1.0 RC 2
• http://www.restlet.org/
• http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/12/
  google_depreciates_SOAP_API.html

• The nominations are now open for the eclipse community awards
• http://www.eclipse.org/org/foundation/
  eclipseawards/index.php

• Synthetica Version 2.2.0 has just been released
• http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t87930.html
• http://www.javasoft.de/jsf/public/products/synthetica

• Ant 1.7.0 has been released
• http://ant.apache.org/
• And virtual ant from placid systems takes a new approach to building ant configuration files
  
• http://www.placidsystems.com/virtualant/Default.aspx

Thanks

• Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth
• Brice Ruth and Webprojkt.com - http://webprojkt.com - for our archives site - http://archives.javaposse.com
• Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect
• Kirsty Doherty for Java Posse artwork
• Nick Trefz, the voice of TopCoder, for the voiceovers
• Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
  
• Theme Music:
  • Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI), written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney. Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad. Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://www.loosebrucekerr.com
  • Closing - A track written by Dick in Apple's Garageband
    

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